In my experience with Zookeeper, dealing with the Debian personalities was a significant issue. There was also the issue that LOTs of issues come up with the range of platforms that Debian runs on.
Just getting the dependencies in place is non-trivial. Remember that we depend on Hadoop. Getting Hadoop into Debian is a non-starter. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Nicholas Kolegraff <[email protected]>wrote: > I glanced over the links you sent, seems some of the overhead would be in > earning 'merit badges' to get approved for uploading your packages to the > debian archives. Otherwise, we'd need to find someone from debian > interested in sponsoring the packages. Seems the overhead is more > operations-y than technical. > > In this case, I think the repo would be a quick win. > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Isabel Drost <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 01.06.2012 Ted Dunning wrote: > > > Jumping through the hoops to get Debian to approve a Java project is a > > lot of > > > work for very little gain that I see. > > > > I don't see that much overhead (other than the need to have all > > dependencies in > > as well): When getting started to build dep packages at least considering > > to > > follow the Debian documentation and getting feedback from ppl who have > > done that > > before could proof benefitial. > > > > Another way to get started quickly would be to host the results at a > > Ubuntu ppa. > > > > > > Isabel > > >
